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These prosthetics break the mold with third thumbs, spikes, and superhero skins

Prosthetics designers are coming up with new ways to help people feel more comfortable in their own skin.

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Structural Analysis of Musical Signals for Indexing and Thumbnailing

A musical piece typically has a repetitive structure. Analysis of this structure will be useful for music segmentation, indexing, and thumb…

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Asaph Azaria

Former Research Assistant

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Fall 2020 OOLE INT18

Disclaimer for playback viewers As part of the MIT Media Lab’s ongoing research on distance learning (MOOC, e-learning) and remote collabor…

Monday
November 23, 2020
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Agenda: Wednesday, October 18

Unable to join us in person? Join via live webcast (login required).

Wednesday
October 18, 2017
9:30am — 7:00pm ET
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Barry L. Vercoe

Former Professor Emeritus; Former Founder

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Media Lab @ Daimler Lab1886

Ryan McCarthy and Phil Tinn spent a week at the headquarters of Daimler and Lab1886 in Stuttgart.

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Workshops: Wednesday, October 18

Workshop topics range from AI to farming and are hosted by Media Lab researches or member companies.

Wednesday
October 18, 2017
4:30pm — 5:30pm ET
Article

18-year-old Nigerian-American wins awards in finance, AI inventions

Bell was a high school intern with the Fluid Interfaces group, where he helped to develop assistive cognitive tools.

Event

IAP: 18th Annual Salute to Dr. Seuss

Monday
January 21, 2008
Event

Daimler Lab 1886 Workshop: Mobility without Cars

Collaboratively exploring the horizon of urban mobility

Friday
April 26, 2019
8:00am — 5:00pm ET
Video

#18 Software Agents

Feb. 22, 2008
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Chapter 18: Flexible and Stretchable Devices for Human-Machine Interfaces

Wicaksono, I., Dagdeviren, C., Handbook of Flexible and Stretchable Electronics, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group 2019.

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Comprehensive report on pandemic response solutions developed by 180 leading experts

Online platform harnesses collective intelligence to accelerate recovery from Covid-19 and prepare for future disease outbreaks.

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Unveiling the geography of historical patents in the United States from 1836 to 1975

Petralia, S., Balland, P.A., and Rigby, D. (2016) Unveiling the geography of historical patents in the United States from 1836 to 1975, Scientific Data, 3 (160074): 1-14

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Sourav Das

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Jessica Mello

Former Sr. Financial Assistant

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Stephen Von Stetina

Former Biological Research Scientist

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Experimental Assessment of Aggregation Principles in Argumentation-Enabled Collective Intelligence

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Surgeons test-drive the amputation of the future with a mail-order limb, rerouted nerve, and prosthetic hand that grips like the real thing

A research team, including members of the Biomechatronics group, devises a new surgery for hand amputations and prostheses.

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A Virtual Muscle Model of the Arm for EMG-Driven Control of Prostheses

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Music, Mind and Machine

The Music, Mind and Machine group is working towards bridging the gap between the current generation of audio technologies and those that w…

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E Ink’s latest color displays have me dreaming of electronic paper magazines

Media Lab spinoff E Ink’s new generation of color displays were introduced at CES 2023.

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Advancing Wellbeing

In contributing to the digital revolution, the Media Lab helped fuel a society where increasing numbers of people are obese, sedentary, and…

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ICLC 2024 Submission

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Hugh Herr talks to the Boston Globe about the collaboration that led to a new amputation procedure

A team of Boston surgeons and scientists has developed a new approach to amputation.

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MLTalks: IDEO's David and Tom Kelley

IDEO's David and Tom Kelly in conversation with Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

July 23, 2013
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Dava Newman named co-chair of WEF Global Future Council on Space Technologies 2025-2026

Newman joins Masami Onoda from the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency as co-chair of this World Economic Forum Council on Space

Article

Researchers design moisture-responsive workout suit

Ventilating flaps lined with live cells open and close in response to an athlete’s sweat.

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Disembodied Performance

Peter Alexander Torpey and Elena Naomi Jessop. 2009. Disembodied performance. CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 3685–3690. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/1520340.1520555

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SCRIBE: Crowdsourcing Indigenous Knowledge

Muniyappa, Prathima. "SCRIBE: Crowdsourcing Indigenous Knowledge," September 2020.

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The Future of WIC: EBT and Beyond

S. Blumenthal, E. Yang, H. England, J. Loyo, K. Horton, W. Willett, The Future of WIC: EBT and Beyond, Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Volume 118, Issue 9, Supplement, 2018, Page A69, ISSN 2212-2672.

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Explore Moon Architecture Workshop Digital FUTURES

Explore Moon ArchitectureWorkshop @Digital FUTURESNASA’s Artemis Program is envisioning a plan to drive humanity to live on our closest cel…

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Joseph A. Paradiso

Alexander W Dreyfoos (1954) Professor; Associate Academic Head, Program in Media Arts and Sciences

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Agonist-antagonist Muscle Strain in the Residual Limb Preserves Motor Control and Perception after Amputation

Song H, Israel EA, Gutierrez-Arango S, Teng AC, Srinivasan SS, Freed LE, Herr HM. Agonist-antagonist Muscle Strain in the Residual Limb Preserves Motor Control and Perception after Amputation. Communication Medicine (Lond). 2022 Aug 5;2:97. doi: 0.1038/s43856-022-00162-z PMID35942078; PMC9356003 2022 (Publisher Correction 2022 Sep 26;2:121. doi: 10.1038/s43856-022-00188-3).

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SynthAX: A Fast Modular Synthesizer in JAX

Cherep*, M., & Singh*, N. (2023, May). SynthAX: A Fast Modular Synthesizer in JAX. In Audio Engineering Society Convention 155. Audio Engineering Society.

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MirrorFugue: Communicating Presence in Remote Music Collaboration

Xiao, X. "MirrorFugue: Communicating Presence in Remote Music Collaboration"

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"Hey Google is it OK if I eat you?" Initial Explorations in Child-Agent Interactions

Stefania Druga, Randi Williams, Cynthia Breazeal, and Mitchel Resnick. 2017. "Hey Google is it OK if I eat you?": Initial Explorations in Child-Agent Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 595-600. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3078072.3084330

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Zero-Shot Transfer Learning to Enhance Communication for Minimally Verbal Individuals with Autism using Naturalistic Data

Narain, J.*, Johnson, K.T.*, Picard, R.W., Maes, P. "Zero-Shot Transfer Learning to Enhance Communication for Minimally Verbal Individuals with Autism using Naturalistic Data," NeurIPS Workshop on AI for Social Good, December 2019. (*Co-first authors/Equal contribution)

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Day of AI 2023: Photo gallery

View photos from the Day of AI event this year, which happened on May 18.

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QTY code designed thermostable and water-soluble chimeric chemokine receptors with tunable ligand affinity

Rui Qing, Qiuyi Han, Michael Skuhersky, Haeyoon Chung, Myriam Badr, View ORCID ProfileThomas Schubert, and Shuguang Zhang. PNAS first published November 27, 2019 (https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909026116). Edited by Alan R. Fersht, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, and approved October 30, 2019 (received for review May 24, 2019).

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Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 Nanofibers Produced by Electrospinning Process

Alkoy, E.M., Dagdeviren, C., Papila, M., Materials Research Society Proceedings, 1129 V07-08, 2009.

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Processing Conditions and Aging Effect on the Morphology of PZT Electrospun Nanofibers, and Dielectric Properties of the Resulting 3–3 PZT P

Alkoy, E.M., Dagdeviren, C., Papila, M.,. Journal of American Ceramic Society, 92(11), 2566-2570, 2009.

Event

Smart City Expo World Congress 2017. Andorra Pavilion

Events at the Andorra PavilionTuesday 11/1411:30 - 13:00 - Inauguration of the Andorra Pavilion15:00 - 15:30 - Apiumtech15:30 - 16:00 - FED…

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Build a Personal Food Computer

OpenAg is committed to changing the way the world thinks about farming and food—and we need your help! As an open source project, we believ…

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Fascia Ecosystem: A Step Forward in Sleep Engineering and Research

Bernal, Guillermo, Malika Chhibber, Mradul Bhatnagar, Urvil Jivani, Nelson Hidalgo, Anthony Levasseur, and Pattie Maes. 2023. Fascia Ecosystem: A Step Forward in Sleep Engineering and Research. 45th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’23), no. Sydney Australia, (July )

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Stretchable Ferroelectric Nanoribbons with Wavy Configurations on Elastomeric Substrates

Feng, X., Yang, B.D., Liu, Y., Wang, Y., Dagdeviren, C., Liu, Z., Carlson, A., Li, J., Huang, Y., Rogers, J.A.,. ACS Nano, 5(4), 3326–3332, 2011.

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‘I can still feel it’: Groundbreaking arm amputation surgery makes a ‘phantom’ hand seem real

Read about the first upper-limb amputation performed using the AMI procedure created by Media Lab researchers + Brigham and Women’s Hospital

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Computational Models for the Determination of Depth-Dependent Mechanical Properties of Skin with a Soft, Flexible Measurement Device

Yuan, J.*, Dagdeviren, C.*, Shi, Y., Ma, Y., Feng, X., Rogers, J.A., Huang, Y., Proceedings of the Royal Society A – Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 472:20160225, 2016.

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Recent Progress in Flexible and Stretchable Piezoelectric Devices for Mechanical Energy Harvesting, Sensing and Actuation

Dagdeviren, C., Joe, P., Tuzman, O.L., Park, K., Lee, K.J., Huang, Y., Rogers, J.A., . Extreme Mechanics Letter, 9(1), 269-281, 2016.

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Translational Motion Tracking of Leg Joints for Enhanced Prediction of Walking Tasks

Stolyarov, R. M., Burnett, G., & Herr, H. (2017). Translational Motion Tracking of Leg Joints for Enhanced Prediction of Walking Tasks. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 1-1. doi:10.1109/tbme.2017.2718528

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Roadmap for Autonomous Cities: Sustainable Transformation of Urban Spaces

Noyman, Ariel, Agnis Stibe, and Kent Larson. "Roadmap for Autonomous Cities: Sustainable Transformation of Urban Spaces." (2017).

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A Feminist HCI Approach to Designing Postpartum Technologies: 'When I first saw a breast pump I was wondering if it was a joke.'

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“Hey Google is it OK if I eat you?” Initial Explorations in Child-Agent Interaction

Druga S, Williams R, “Hey Google is it OK if I eat you?” Initial Explorations in Child-Agent Interaction, IDC Stanford, 2017

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Silverspot: exploring parameter space with sketches

With computation, it's easy to create systems that have a vast number of variations, but it's sometimes difficult to explore those systems.…